The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

243 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction literary emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
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 When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Th...

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